Baseball, President Eisenhower, and Elvis Presley
The baseball season begins today, so spring must really be here. This photo of President Eisenhower, throwing out the game ball for a New York Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers World Series game in New York City, was taken by the legendary Cuban photographer Osvaldo Salas. What a great photo it is! Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer opens this Saturday at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas. 1956 was a big year for Elvis and Ike… America was prosperous and the charismatic Eisenhower won a landslide re-election for President of the United States in the same year that Elvis recorded Hound Dog and Don’t Be Cruel and went to #1 on the charts. Play Ball!!
President Eisenhower throws out the fist ball for the 1955 World Series. Copyright ©Osvaldo Salas. All Rights Reserved.
Elvis Presely, Russwood Park, Memphis, Tennessee, 1956. Copyright ©Alfred Wertheimer. All Rights Reserved.